This commodification of White working-class culture is just YET ANOTHER attempt to pull the teeth of White cultural solidarity. If they can spoof it, and make it just another superficial fad, then they can mock it and change it from something real and palpable into another good "You Might Be a Redneck" joke.

This is a good post. I just wanted to add that in the world today, we can't distinguish any more between "reality" on the one hand, and image, representation, stereotyping, and caricature on the other. The media image is often more "real" (in the sense of being credible and in the impact it has on people) than the phenomenon it was modelled on, or drew its inspiration from. Image is initially modelled on reality, but then subsequently reality gets modelled on image, and the incestuous relationship between the two becomes too difficult to disentangle. Now white working-class culture is being subjected to the same treatment. Every reality, every experience is being packaged and commodified.

Excuse me but we do need to be hung up on image or we will NEVER EVER accomplish what we want to accomplish. Sterotypes drag down and NOT build up. We ARE marketing a product here. What is it? Our future survival is the product we are marketing to the sleeping whites. If we stick with these sterotypes that the jews pitch we will go nowhere. We will always be seen as inbred, ignorant, bigoted hicks. I for one dont want that.

Racism is stigmatized because it has been successfully linked with lower-class white people. We need to link racial egalitarianism and political correctness with lower class people (not necessarily white).

If you look at movies from the 1950s you can see a huge difference in the way working-class white people are portrayed. I remember a sci-fi movie where the man of action and the daughter of the scientist stopped for gas on the way to investigate the giant spider and the guy who pumped their gas was a normal, clean-cut human being - something you would never see nowadays in the mass media. Maybe another factor in this, besides trying to divide the European American community, is that the USSR is now gone, so they don't have to court the support of working-class people any more.

Racism is stigmatized because it has been successfully linked with lower-class white people. We need to link racial egalitarianism and political correctness with lower class people (not necessarily white).

<snip> Maybe another factor in this, besides trying to divide the European American community, is that the USSR is now gone, so they don't have to court the support of working-class people any more.

This is another good post that deserves an additional comment or two. White nationalism or separatism ("racism") has increasingly been a white working class phenomenon. Ever since overt empire-building and colonialism came to an end, our elites have seen no further mileage in playing the race card. Our attempts to salvage our communities in the face of unrelenting immigration and an economic whirlwind are depicted as ignorant, bigoted white supremacism (into which we inadvertently play often enough).

The compact of our elites with the white working class started to unravel in the early 70s. Between 1945 and 1975, being a white working-class person had some cachet (vis-a-vis non-white working class, or the working classes of non-white countries); this has been steadily eroded. There is no compact anymore. We're on our own. Part of what we see on Stormfront today is a reaction against this betrayal.

I just saw this article a few minutes ago and since it seems germane I think I should include it:

Between 1997 and 2001, the top 10 per cent of US earners received 49 per cent of the growth in aggregate real wages and salaries, while the top 1 per cent received an astonishing 24 per cent. Meanwhile, the bottom 50 per cent received less than 13 per cent. Why is this happening? And should non-egalitarians care?

The data I have cited come from a remarkable paper from two economists at Northwestern University.* The authors ask a simple, but telling, question: if the US economy is becoming more productive, why have most of its citizens not become better off?

This is what we're facing as the white working class. Not only are we being massacred demographically, but we're getting the dirty end of the stick economically. Instead of a serious study of this, we're portrayed as "white trash" in the media (in binary opposition -- I guess -- to the yuppie, urban, metrosexual "person" making a solid six-figures in one of the new global (parasitic) industries -- finance, media, etc.)

Msnbc is nothing but a bunch of anti white lefty liberal assholes anyway. Fox news is killing them in ratings. although i dont totally like FNC anymore since they give the coons and queers an audience.

I work in a tattoo shop, which is sometimes a trashy place to be despite mine and others efforts to maintain a professional and creative environment.
So, a few days ago this colored boy comes in, and he says to me “yo foo’, I want me some han-s, hol’n a erf.. wit a shape of America, and Africa on it.”
I reply, somewhat questioning “ you mean a set of hands, holding the Earth, with shapes of America and Africa visible? You know that these continents are not in the same hemisphere, and that they are not normally seen as next to each other on the face of a globe… right?”
He begins to bristle at my obvious intellectual snobbery, as he should, and grunts something I take to mean that he doesn’t care. So I shoot him an outrageous price. At this he whips out a thick wad of hundred dollar bills in a gold and bedazzled (full of fake diamonds) money clip and slams it on the counter, rather triumphantly.
Well, this is nothing new. Coloreds frequently display their wealth in such instances. We even have a word for such a phenomena: ******-rich.
I have a long standing policy of refusing to deal with belligerence and my co-workers welcome the overflow I toss them, so I look at our collective appointment schedule and I tell Sambo that it’s unfortunate but no one will be able to get to him for a few days.
He mutters some racially charged profanity as he struts out through the door, and I think I’ll never see him again.
Yesterday I’m working however, and I look up and there he is. This time though, one of my co-workers greets him with much kindness and fanfare. Some of the customers in the shop edge closer to him and to my confusion the energy level in the room begins to take a strange turn. I overhear whispering, and it is apparent to me that he is some sort of negro celebrity. A dancing monkey if you will. My co-worker, who I previously thought was a fairly solid guy, eagerly tells him that he can get him in immediately. The negro begins to shuck and jive, positively beaming at his success in manipulating a white devil.
“Straight up.” Says he… “ I gots a whole new set of white trash jokes for ya’ll”. Everyone giggle, titillated by the brazen chimp.
I stop tattooing. “ Perfect. I have lots of ****** jokes for you too then.” I say. The room goes silent. “ Then we be brawlin” he says, puffing out his little bird chest. “ I reply “then you should call your agent now, because you’re going to have some medical bills.” I smiled real sweetly and set down my machine.
I wait for this kind of situation. I dream about it at night. This man looked into my eyes and he saw every single violent thought I have ever had, he saw that I would gladly go to court, I would gladly pay restitution fees, and most of all I would gladly roll around on the hard tile floor on top of him in front of all these other White people. His posse was nowhere to be seen, and he did not want any part of me.
He forced a laugh, and said something in ebonic that made others laugh, which was intended to diffuse the situation. Truth be told, at that instant I just wanted to finish what I was doing and get out there. Regardless of how much I wanted to attack a black celebrity, more than anything I wanted to get away from the room full of race-traitors.
The disgust really hit me later, last night. I couldn’t sleep, wishing I had done more… done anything really. I left the shop as soon as I was done and now I will go back and look at these people I work with, knowing that’s its ok for blacks to spit in their faces… as long as their funny, or rich.
I don’t think “white trash” is funny. Poor White people without the resources to elevate themselves, be it wealth or education or a certain social sophistication, is not humorous; it’s tragic. Blacks and other species may defecate on each other all they want, but I feel self-depreciating humor has a limit, and once it’s crossed, it becomes psychological programming and a very tangible reality. I don’t feel that the popularization of these terms are an accident or coincidence.
I apologize for this rambling post, but I found it to be most cathartic!

Don't WORRY about the "redneck", "White Trash" thing. It's a tacit form of admiration. Time are freaking SCARY, to loads of folks. Jews KNOW that they'll NEED Whites to SAVE their butts from the ragheads - and all the hordes of muds they've helped spawn.The muds that hate them.

So, when times get tough - people go to ground. The "White Trash" fad is a way to praise and admire solid, working class Whites - while "keeping them in their place" at the SAME time.

However, speaking as a PROUD heir to a LONG line of obscure White Trash - no-one keeps Whites down for long. OR controls us.

It's scary that the jeans I've had for about 4 years now, oil stained from automotive care, covered in paint from home renovations, and soiled with dirt from installing house wire, would retail for $150. They have holes in them, so maybe my estimate is low.